Goodrich opens world’s largest landing gear test facility
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Manufacturing News, Source : TheManufacturer.com
Published : 05 Apr 2005 20:11
Goodrich, one of the world’s largest suppliers of landing systems for commercial and military aircraft, today unveiled the world’s largest aircraft landing gear test facility, at its site in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
Goodrich is providing the body and wing landing gear for the Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial airliner. The Oakville test facility was built to accommodate the A380 landing gear.
The facility encompasses 22,604 square feet of floor space. It houses a Super Rig for structural testing, which includes strength and fatigue testing of the A380 body and wing landing gears.
“This event today is symbolic of the global inter-connectivity of our industry,” Allan McArtor, chairman of Airbus North America, said at the unveiling. “A European airplane manufacturer awards an American aerospace company a contract to build landing gear tested and assembled in Canada for an airplane that will be sold to airlines around the world and operated all over the planet.”
Components for the landing gear system are being made by Goodrich Landing Gear facilities in Cleveland, OH; Tullahoma, TN; Oakville, Ontario; and Krosno, Poland. Final gear integration occurs at the Goodrich facility in Toulouse, France, before delivery to Airbus’ final assembly line.
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